The historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump kicked off in a Manhattan courtroom Monday — the first time a former president in U.S. history has stood trial on criminal charges.The proceedings before Judge Juan Merchan moved forward after Trump made multiple attempts to delay them, resulting in a string of losses that failed to derail the trial's start.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump made many of his typical unfounded claims about the case, including that it's 'an illegal attack on a Political Opponent,' and that he will be 'forced to sit, GAGGED, before a HIGHLY CONFLICTED & CORRUPT JUDGE, whose hatred for me has no bounds.'Trump will be 'gagged'? Well, not literally. But he is under a gag order limiting what he can say about the trial.